Celebrate World Usability Day in Geneva with a free after-work event; this year’s theme is “UX design for good or evil” and it will take place on Thursday 8 November @ Impact Hub (next to Cornavin train station), from 6.30 to 9pm.Further details and register here>>

‘The Art of Corporate Communication: Insights for the 21st Century’ conference at Webster University Geneva on November 1st from 6.30 pm – to 7. 30 pm.

Four professors spanning a range of fields (media history and theory, humanitarian communication, business communication, international negotiation, marketing and social science) connect their academic knowledge and professional expertise to shed light on the challenges of persuading, marketing and measuring the impact of communications in the current, turbulent political and economic landscape.

Do you have a marketing question that keeps you awake at night?

You know that if you crack that hard nut you will move ahead in your business … and you will sleep better.

You can go the long way around and start joining courses, reading articles, blogs and books …

OR

You can send your question to us and we will answer it LIVE. You will get a specific answer to your very specific question and the clarity on what to do next, step by step.

Other small business owners have joined the event in the past and gained the clarity that they needed. See what one of the participants had to say:

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”I was amazed by the detail that you went into on the questions.Thank you for taking the time to look so closely at what I could be doing better.I thought your event was excellent.I would certainly be interested to attend again once I’ve implemented some of your ideas over this winter”
Dave Burrows, Owner, Snow Pros Ski School

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We take in 3 questions per event and accept up to 10 participants as observers (those who do not have a specific question but want to learn new marketing tactics and techniques).

Ekaterina Filippova, Online visibility expert for SME’s, Board member of Geneva Communicators Network, Founder of eKat Communication, Co-founder of Marketing Q&A. Ekaterina is an ace at increasing visibility on social media, having done that for many businesses in Switzerland: https://ekatcommunication.ch

This presentation aims to create awareness about the positive and not-so-positive consequences of the new technologies that are increasingly influencing our lives.

Technology is progressing like never before; our civilisation will change so much that its rules and technologies will be incomprehensible to the previous generation. As science-fiction becomes science fact, this lecture looks at how these emerging technologies are impacting our lives. How can we befriend these new technologies, rather than running scared from their developments? How can we ensure a bright future in which our children will coexist peacefully and collaboratively with thinking machines?

The event will be followed by a question and answer session and a free networking cocktail.

A one-day introduction to the techniques of using hand-drawn visuals in a range of professional contexts, including group facilitation, coaching and training.

You will learn the basics of visual language and how to use a mix of simple drawings, colour, words and metaphors to develop and share ideas, record presentations and meetings, and engage and energize groups.

Thinking that you can draw is absolutely not a prerequisite— if the techniques interest you and you’re prepared to experiment, please join us. We will spend a large proportion of the time each day practising and sharing within the group.

Get ready to break free from your limits and enjoy a rich life!

During this one-day workshop, expert coaches Lynda Heffernan (High-performance and mindset) and Melitta Campbell (Business and Communications) will be helping you determine what lies between you and everything you want to achieve in life and business.

During this highly practical and enlightening workshop, you will be shown how to create the strategies you need to live the life you desire.

Super Early bird tickets are now available for just chf 279, a saving of chf 150!

About the Trainers

Melitta Campbell

After working in international business for 15 years and running two successful businesses for more than 10 years, today, Melitta provides business coaching and training for new and aspiring female entrepreneurs.

“I’ve learned that success comes from having clarity of purpose, an ability to communicate clearly, and personal confidence. All my work centres around helping women build these core skills so they can launch a successful business that they love.”

“Melitta has helped me reignite my spark and fall back in love with being an entrepreneur. I now feel more equipped to deal with whatever comes next.” Kate Naegli

Lynda Heffernan

Lynda’s goal in life is to empower people to reach their full potential.

Using her unique coaching approach that blends Mindful NLP and Cognitive Kaizen she helps her clients create the changes that lead to sustainable high performance in all areas of life and business.

“Over and over, I’ve seen that once people become aware of what lies between them and everything they want to achieve, magic starts to happen. That’s what I’m looking forward to with the Millionaire Mindset Workshop.”

“My experience with Lynda has been truly transformative in terms of advancing my corporate career, and more recently she has been instrumental in giving me the confidence and skills to create my own consultancy business.” Mark Phelan

The UN Designers’ next meetup will be on 22 June 2018 from 9:30am in Room VIII, Palais des Nations. (For those who are available, we would also like to invite you stay and socialize over lunch afterwards).
During our 12th Meeting, we will revisit Branding & Visual identities in the UN Family, this time with the help of Carlo Mendes. Carlo has been leading a visual identity exercise at IOM, and will be able to share his insights regarding the challenges of branding de-centralized organizations with strong regional presences, and how to ensure your brand stays relevant across all channels. This will be a great opportunity to discuss branding matters in multi-stakeholder organizations and gauge how design matters develop as compared to the private sector.

Speakers including Sami Kanaan (politician and presumed next Mayor of Geneva), Corinne Momal-Vanian (director at the UN Office at Geneva), Celine Van Till (elite Swiss athlete, ambassador for the disabled and author) Vincent Lusser, Deputy secretary general, urban projects, State of Geneva and Dan Acher (Founder, Happy City Lab) will present their ideas, works and thoughts at the upcoming “International Geneva Pechakucha Night”.

PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings held in creative cities all around the world, where local and international people get together and share their ideas, works and thoughts — just about anything — in the “PechaKucha” format: 20 images for 20 seconds each. Organized in collaboration with CAGI (Geneva Welcome Centre) and UNOG (United Nations office Geneva) perception change project, the short and visual presentations will be given in French and English.

The event, hosted at the beautiful “La Pastorale” mansion situated at Route de Ferney 106, Geneva (100m from the Place des Nations), will be followed by a Garden Party, with a concert by The Emigrants, food trucks (by the Hamburger Foundation and Saveurs Migrants) and a cash bar with local craft beer from La Brasserie des Murailles. The evening is an opportunity to network and to learn about extraordinary initiatives, entrepreneurship experiences, hidden secrets and the exciting cultural happenings of International Geneva.